‘Red Dog’ brought back the film Industry’s dignity and produced a film that represented Australians in a successful manner. This movie displayed our true blue traits such as mateship, humour, the famous red dirt, telling stories of the good ol’ days and of course beer. The genre is a drama/comedy, in one scene you are laughing untill your belly hurts and in the next crying. This movie had it all, from amazing cinemetography to down to earth actors making it an award winning film. Based on a true story, written down by Louis de Bernieres (in his book Red Dog), this movie took place in the small town of Dampier on the western coast of Australia. The first scene shows a truck driver named Thomas arriving at a small pub in Dampier late at night. Spotting a silhouette of a gun in the back room, mistaking it for a murder, he rushes to help. Thomas discovers the men are only trying to put down a poisoned dog (Red Dog) but they don’t have the guts to shoot him. They all retreat to the bar and the bartender, Jack …show more content…
They gave off a natural and relaxed vibe, creating down to earth characters going about their day to day lives. Loyalty, well trained and cute are all the dog gone qualities that complete Koko (Red Dog), thus making him outshine all his two-legged friends on the big screen. Josh Lucas played his role paw-fectly! His love for animals shone through when he was with Koko making the interaction during the film more realistic and heartfelt. Rachael Taylor, the city girl, definately made a statement in this film with her clean cut look and trade mark smile. She showed the right amount of emotion and didn’t look awkward in any of the scences. The soundtrack tied in exceptionally with each moment in the film making you laugh, cry, or smile. When the charaters were happy, the music mimicked this feeling and visa versa. Most of the songs played in this film were from Australian singers/bands accomplishing the outback
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In Australia the Aboriginals face discrimination daily. The film opened with four young Aboriginal girls singing on a makeshift stage facing their community. When the camera panned to show the smiling faces in the crowd it gave a feel of unity and love. Later it showed two sisters who were trying to hitch a ride into the city from the main road. Yet every vehicle passed them by; once they saw who they were, frustrated the older sister. Gale stated it was because they ‘were black’. When in the town playing their song on the stage in a bar, the youngest sister turned up and took
The film is set in Bodega Bay - a small town by the sea. All the
T Australians can be represented in a positive way by celebrating its diversity as a united nation, between its people and the land. Nevertheless, Australia can also be seen in a negative way, as being harsh and cruel. S – This presentation will be analysing one Australian song, I am Australian by Bruce
In the New Yorker article “Offensive Play,” by Malcolm Gladwell, he makes a comparison between dogfighting and football, claiming that they tend to be more similar than people may conclude. Gladwell argues this because they both develop a negative effect on one’s body and brain causing several physical and mental changes that could possibly lead to death. However, some of these events that cause injury go without notice until later on in life when they have retired from their “glory days.”
While waiting for the movie to play there was lots of laughter and chatter. Everyone, including myself was excited to see this particular movie for many reasons. For me I had heard that it was a good movie for other friends, also I had previously viewed the trailers and was excited to see the actresses together in a movie. The theater instantly got quiet as the movie began. The sound track
acting the same way. The song also talks about how the hound dog still comes around
Released in 1976, the screenplay is set in a post-Vietnam War America. Robert DiNiro, the main character in the movie by the name of Travis Bickle, claims to be an ex marine and a Vietnam War veteran who drives a taxi at night in NYC. In his screenplay, the Taxi Driver, Martin Scoses suggests Travis Bickle a main character who undertakes the role of a cowboy, to be someone who embodies the masculine and violent traits in pre counter culture America, but also someone who represents elements of western mythology. In order to support his argument Scoses uses Travis need to fulfill his masculine cowboy persona, by making him the hero of his own life.
Women are beaten, and it is culturally acceptable. Like routine, women are beaten in Afghanistan almost every day. When a person purposely inflicts sufferings on others with no feelings of concern, like the women of Afghanistan, he is cruel. Cruelty can manifest from anger, irritation, or defeat and is driven by self-interest. An idea that is explored in many works of literature, cruelty also appears in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns in the relationship between a husband and wife. In their case, the husband uses cruelties in the form of aggression are to force his wife to submit. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini’s use of cruelty elucidates the values of both Rasheed and Mariam as well as essential ideas about the nature of
The 2009 film “Precious”, based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire, tells the tragic story of sixteen-year-old Claireece Precious Jones; an overweight, illiterate who is now pregnant with her second child. Her life at home is a complete nightmare; her mother, Mary, verbally, emotionally and physically abuses her daily. Her father, Carl, molested her on multiple occasions and impregnated her twice then disappeared. Precious was kicked out of public school and took an offer to attend an alternative school where she meets her inspirational teacher Miss Blu Rain. Precious begins to believe in herself and prepares herself for her future. She becomes engaged in class and learns how to read and write; she was called stupid and dummy all her life and
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Social class, as defined by the film, is something that affects who you are as a person. In the film, the people saw class as the defining factor of a person. They saw class as a barrier between people. If one person is in a different class than another person, then obviously, they are not supposed to associate. They allowed their social class to dictate their action each day. It was amazing to me just how much the people in the film allowed their class to truly define them and really serve as a boundary in their life. The people in the film lived their daily life with their social class as the most influential factor. Their worth and value as individuals was not determined by anything else except the amount of money they had. It was really interesting to see how the amount of money a person had somehow equated with their worth in society. The same is true within our society today, but in the film, this aspect was especially evident. The film really shed a light on just how impactful social class is and just how much we allow it to